A kindling
BREW Poetry Award Nominee - Open Category / by The Contributing Writer / 226 views
- Listing ID: 36604
- Poetry Author's Name: Nandini Sen Mehra
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Poem:
A bird with one wing still dreams about the sky,
a drop of dew of when it once was rain,
a silenced tongue of the time before the fear,
a splintered heart, a life before the pain
Of all desire that now has found a sheath,
of naked want that’s taught itself to wait,
and time and age now weight upon our feet,
and whisper soft, too late, it is too late
And still, and still a silent ember burns
a chance breeze may well ignite a flame,
and rouse the ones resigned to fitful sleep,
A return to wild, what once believed was tame. - Poet's Bio: Nandini Sen Mehra is a Brisbane-based poet. She writes about the inner workings of her mind and the beauty and terror of the world she inhabits. Her debut book of poetry is Whorls Within (Amaryllis, 2021). She co-authored Unburden: Playful Principles for Joyous Living (Penguin, 2022) with Nithya Shanti.
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